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Friday Footnotes: Big 4 Nixes Legal Practices; EY Looks the Other Way; Auditors Get Lectured Again | 10.14.22

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Big Four Audit Giants Shut Down Legal Operations in China Following ‘Regulatory Raids’ [ Law.com ]. The Big Four auditing giants have quietly shut down their legal affiliations in China following intense regulatory scrutiny, according to an investigation by Law.com International, in a major development for Asia’s legal industry.

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Friday Footnotes: Big 4 Culture Gets Slammed Again; Audit Leads the Way in AI; Small Firm Gripes | 11.10.23

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“Financial reporting leaders, but also investors, regulators, and other stakeholders in the capital markets expect AI to drive audit quality. . “Financial reporting leaders, but also investors, regulators, and other stakeholders in the capital markets expect AI to drive audit quality.

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Friday Footnotes: Remembering Legend Sid Kess; Andersen’s Doing Great; Poland Banned Deloitte From Auditing? | 9.22.23

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Former employee of Chattanooga accounting firm speaks out [ Local 3 ] A former employee of Croft and Frost is speaking out following the accounting firm’s shutdown that cost him and his coworkers their jobs. The 2023 Forum on Auditing in the Small Business Environment and on Auditing Broker-Dealers is set for Oct.

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Friday Footnotes: PwC Isn’t Getting a Redemption; Just Say No to NOCLAR; Oh, Layoffs? | 3.15.24

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This was the brave part of the statement PwC boss Kevin Burrowes made on Wednesday as he announced another 366 partners and employees would be cut at the embattled firm to right-size the shrinking business. The NYT report’s focus was that private auditors from large firms failed and consistently missed child labor law violations.

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Friday Footnotes: The Profession vs. Gen Z; CPA Firms Get Back to the Office; Deloitte Quits | 6.23.23

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Even so, they say more people in the office is better than less, and firms are taking different approaches to get there. Expect 2023 enforcement against auditors to focus on quality control, culture, ethics and integrity. The immediate risks to those mid-tier lenders might have subsided, but that doesn’t put KPMG in the clear.

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Accountants Behaving Badly: Police Department Accountant Couldn’t Be Bothered, PPP Loan Fraud, and a Creepy Tax Preparer

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Attorney’s Office, Western District of North Carolina ] A federal grand jury in Charlotte has indicted Mandy Deann Urban, 47, formerly of Charlotte, with wire fraud, for allegedly embezzling more than $1.1 Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. million from her employer, announced Dena J.

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Friday Footnotes: Why Private Equity Loves the Profession; A Very Naughty KPMG Employee; WTF PwC Guy | 4.5.24

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Private Equity Why private-equity investors see a target-rich environment in Chicago’s accounting biz [ Crain’s Chicago Business ] Isn’t “target-rich environment” what Overwatch’s Soldier 76 says when he pops his ult and proceeds to melt the entire enemy team? The 2021-22 audit was due to the state on Oct.

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